Are there any more references to how the Founding Fathers welcomed the Muslims, Hindus and Jews to the USA ?

Question

Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli (June 7, 1797). Article 11 states:

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."

From Jefferson's biography:

"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected-----'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'"

"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." --- Thomas Jefferson

"In every country and in every age the PRIEST has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." – Thomas Jefferson

"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." -- James Madison


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Answer 1

when the Treaty of Tripoli was renewed 8 years later that sentence was taken it out. it was a political ploy to make peace with the Muslims pirates of the day. James Madison brought the idea the government should be set into three different Branch's after reading Isiah 33 22. Pres. Jefferson was utmost a politic an he said things for and against Christianity. here are many qoutes from our founders.

Thomas Jefferson: "The reason that
Christianity is the best friend of government
is because Christianity is the only religion
that changes the heart."

George Washington: "... whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor..."

John Jay was the first Chief Justice of he Supreme Court. He said, "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers

lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this Divine Book, above all others, constitutes the soul of republicanism.” “By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.” [Letter written (1790’s) in Defense of the Bible in all schools in America]
• “Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.”
• “If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.”

"Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education”
Letters of Benjamin Rush, "To the citizens of Philadelphia: A Plan for Free Schools", March 28, 1787

here is what Thomas Paine had to say
“ It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.”
“ The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.” “The Existence of God--1810”


and George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]

and last Noah Webster

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
[Source: 1828, in the preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” [Noah Webster. History. p. 339]

“The Bible was America’s basic textbook
in all fields.” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p.5]

“Education is useless without the Bible” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798


The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved

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here is what Thomas Paine said as a sumation of his A Discourse At The Society Of Theophilanthropists, Paris

If we unite to the present instruction a series of lectures on the ground I have mentioned, we shall, in the first place, render theology the most delightful and entertaining of all studies. In the next place we shall give scientific instruction to those who could not otherwise obtain it. The mechanic of every profession will there be taught the mathematical principles necessary to render him a proficient in his art; the cultivator will there see developed the principles of vegetation; while, at the same time, they will be led to see the hand of God in all these things.

this is all wriitten in his Existence Of God peice.

Answer 2

Google the two aspects of the argument, not your narrow view. Riddle me this, batman: WHY could somebody who supposedly hates faith advise it lots? Why not make united statesa. a Godless regime? multiple the 1st settlers in this u . s . have been right here for religious FREEDOM. the 1st college textbook in this u . s . replaced right into a BIBLE. different rates via Thomas Jefferson :" certainly I tremble for my u . s ., as quickly as I mirror that God is purely, that his justice can not sleep perpetually." "I even have sworn upon the regulate OF GOD eternal hostility against all varieties of tyranny over the techniques of guy." (that incorporates proscribing religious prepare, even however he could not have agreed with it). "God who gave us existence, gave us liberty on an analogous time: the hand of tension might wreck yet can not DISJOIN THEM." the biggest church provider in the rustic replaced into held in the hallowed halls of CONGRESS. throughout the time of the Jefferson AND Madison administration, the state extremely grew to become the church. each and every Sunday. interior of a twelve months after inauguration, the president of the USA, Thomas Jefferson frequently attended, as did James Madison for the duration of his term. WHY? because of the fact they KNEW that maximum of the people have been of a spiritual conviction, and that they respected it, even however they did not consider it. They knew it replaced into sturdy for the rustic. The Gospel of Jesus Christ replaced into additionally preached in the suited courtroom chambers. Their heads could spin around and that they could spit up pea soup as we talk. The 'wall of separation' between church and state replaced into in keeping with the Baptist Church inquiry approximately Catholicism starting to be the state faith. He wasn't attempting to place down any religious faith, he replaced into announcing that the government can not alter IT, like different international places have been doing. for this reason many people LEFT those international places. people such as you're taking OUT OF CONTEXT the words of the founding fathers, and twist them on your man or woman perverted techniques. many that helped pen the documents founding this u . s . have been religious zealots, some have been atheists, some could care much less, yet all of them regarded that this u . s . would not stay to tell the tale if it left its religious roots. do not re-write historic past on your secular-humanist techniques. fairly quickly you will say the holocaust did not happen

Answer 3

Nice and well said.